We were recently the victim of a sort of denial-of-service attack on our server, where a spammer sent out a bunch of messages from forged @alphadictionary.com addresses, and we got hit with the bounce messages. As a result, we were running low on memory and that might have caused database issues with the Agora.

TECHNICAL DIGRESSION It's likely that the only thing that had problems was the phpbb_sessions table which keeps track of who is online. I had to recreate it, but hopefully no harm done. If things get too weird, I'm going to have to restore from a nightly backup, which means we lose the last couple of days of activity.

Thanks for your understanding,

Andrew

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time. - Alan Perlis

I thought the time out was an error as I have left the keyboard in the middle of a post (I also do multiple attempts to get one posting out/proofreading repeatedly too) and returned quite some time later after remembering i was on line and I was permitted to continue. ???